Oil-derived marine aggregates - hot spots of polysaccharide degradation by specialized bacterial communities
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- 作者：Carol Arnosti ; arnosti@email.unc.edu" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Kai Ziervogel ; Tingting Yang ; Andreas Teske
- 关键词：Community composition ; Enzyme ; Carbohydrates
- 刊名：Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：July 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：129
- 期：Complete
- 页码：179-186
- 全文大小：1454 K
文摘
Aggregates generated in the laboratory from incubations of seawater and surface-water oil collected in the initial phase of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill resemble the oil-aggregates observed in situ. Here, we investigated the enzyme activities and microbial community composition of laboratory generated oil-aggregates, focusing on the abilities of these communities to degrade polysaccharides, which are major components of marine organic matter and are abundant constituents of exopolymeric substances (EPS) generated by oil-associated bacteria in response to the presence of oil. The patterns of polysaccharide-hydrolyzing enzyme activities in oil aggregates were very different from those in the water surrounding the aggregates after formation, and in the surface water that did not contain the oil. Specific oil aggregate-associated hydrolysis rates were also considerably higher than in the water surrounding the aggregates. The differences in initial hydrolysis profiles, and in evolution of these profiles with time, points to specialized metabolic abilities among the oil-aggregate communities compared to oil-water and ambient water communities. The composition of the oil-aggregate community indicates a multifunctional microbial assemblage containing primary oil-degrading and exopolysaccharide-producing members of the Gammaproteobacteria, and diverse members of the Alphaproteobacteria, Bacteroidetes and Planktomycetales that most likely participate in the breakdown of oil-derived bacterial biopolymers. Formation and aging of oil-aggregates encourages the growth and transformation of microbial communities that are specialized in degradation of petroleum, as well as their secondary degradation products.